I grew up modestly. My parents rarely gave me what I wanted \u2014 no ballet classes, small birthdays, the cheapest phone, no allowance. I worked part-time as a teen just to have money. Strangely, they paid for an expensive school while we lived so frugally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now in college and drowning in debt, I moved back home. One night, I discovered documents revealing my parents are actually wealthy \u2014 multiple properties, investments, big savings. When I confronted them, they said, \u201cIt\u2019s our money, not yours. We wanted to raise you to work hard. That\u2019s how rich people stay rich.\u201d<\/em>I packed my bags that night. They let me struggle financially while sitting on fortune. Is that fair? Should I forgive them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I grew up modestly. My parents rarely gave me what I wanted \u2014 no ballet classes, small birthdays, the cheapest phone, no allowance. I worked part-time as… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":633,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions\/473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}